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Table 10. Electric Operation and Maintenance Expenses for Major U.S. Publicly Owned Generator Electric Utilities, 1996-2000
(Thousand Dollars)
Item 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
Production Expenses          
  Steam Power Generation 5,415,041 4,277,393 4,155,209 4,088,997 3,770,239
  Nuclear Power Generation 1,347,281 1,292,076 1,297,301 1,281,934 915,094
  Hydraulic Power Generation 331,634 281,221 256,931 301,468 220,076
  Other Power Generation 600,657 403,066 385,162 296,580 250,541
  Purchased Power 9,026,067 6,591,205 6,376,931 6,379,865 6,750,731
  Other Production Expenses 197,980 168,256 155,777 135,168 127,563
    Total Production Expenses 16,909,834 13,008,913 12,627,171 12,482,786 12,023,460
  Transmission Expenses 911,293 851,424 901,621 839,770 593,396
  Distribution Expenses 1,090,513 997,033 1,077,298 1,016,129 927,151
  Customer Accounts Expenses 506,987 414,545 389,885 389,824 364,980
  Customer Service and Information Expenses 210,618 160,166 126,813 133,827 103,383
  Sales Expenses 65,562 49,188 50,816 46,239 17,569
  Administrative and General Expenses 1,713,975 1,590,854 1,564,344 1,601,186 1,358,564
    Total Electric Operation Maintenance Expenses 21,389,453 17,072,040 16,737,931 16,509,128 15,388,172
Fuel Expenses in Operation          
  Steam Power Generation 4,149,987 2,870,565 2,674,343 2,649,348 2,176,608
  Nuclear Power Generation 315,567 333,449 315,962 316,701 229,664
  Other Power Generation 372,309 189,268 179,452 131,185 89,387
Number of Elec Dept Employees1          
  Regular Full-time 53,833 53,662 52,739 53,902 55,002
  Part-time & Temporary 2,302 2,291 2,257 2,366 1,877
      Total Elec Dept Employees 56,135 55,953 54,996 56,268 56,879


1/ Number of employees were not submitted by some publicly owned electric utilities because the number of electric utility employees could not be separated from the other employees within the municipal or the electric utility outsourced much of the work. Note: Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding.  Detailed data are provided in Table 27.  The number of publicly owned generating electric utilities for end of period is 225 for 2000, 226 for 1999, 227 for 1998, 245 for 1997, and 231 for 1996.
       Source: Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-412, "Annual Report of Public Electric Utilities." Individual electric utilities report fiscal year data.  Appendix B shows the fiscal year for each electric utility.